Purple Ice Plant | Ground Cover Plants from Gurney's Seed and Nursery

Product Details

Zones: 5 - 9 (-10° F.)
Height: 1" - 2" - mat forming
Spacing: 15-18 inches
Depth: Plant top of root ball level with the soil surface
Sun/Shade: Full sun to partial shade
Color: Purple
Foliage: Succulent; glittering green
Blooms: Continuous; late spring to frost

Comments: Incorporate generous amounts of peat moss, compost, or well-rotted manure along with stone chips deeply into the soil to help improve drainage. Mulch with stone chips. Be sure to water around and not on the plants. May be invasive; plant away from formal gardens. Drought resistant. Cell structure in leaves causes a glittering effect. Attracts pollen and nectar insects.
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Purple Ice Plant Ships In Both Spring And Fall
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- Saturday, September 15, 2007
taking over the yard
Reviewed By: Olie (La Luz, NM)
I planted these a few years ago mostly red and yellow. They are taking over everything. Can't keep them under control. They bloom all year so guess I will let them take over.

- Thursday, August 09, 2007
Tricky but prolific
Reviewed By: Edie (Garden Valley, ID)
Just like the other reviewers, I thought my ice plants had died over the winter, so I pulled out the remains. To my amazement, as June began to wane, ice plants began showing up everywhere I'd tossed the "remains." They've taught me to believe their dead looking remains for true dead.

- Friday, August 03, 2007
disappointed
Reviewed By: Darryl (Pittsburgh, PA)
I planted 6 of the ice plant in rich soil in May. It spread rapidly and had beautiful green succulent leaves and bright pink flowers until October. But every plant died in winter. None came up next spring. I was disappointed. This is an annual in zone 4, not a perennial.

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